Janet French’s work explores the symbiotic relationship between man and the natural environment. It is important to her that she communicate her interaction with the landscape and does not produce work that is based solely on observation. She expresses this by using materials gathered from her garden and local fields and woodlands which allowed her to develop a technique of transforming leaves and fibres into 'paper'. She is a keen gardener and, as with gardening, she works in tune with the seasons and weather.

She is currently fascinated by the spiritual experience of the effect of light seen through trees. The images in her current body of work are an attempt to encapsulate this and are produced using a variety of printmaking methods including linocuts, woodcuts and screen prints onto paper made from leaves and fibres of local woodland species.